After Effects alternative?

[Mark Whitney]

Well, to just spill it’s guts:

AMD RYZEN THREADRIPPER 2990WX Processor (3.00GHz) 32 Core
2x NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 8GB
64GB DDR4-2666 (4 – 16GB DIMMS
M2_Storage_1 1.0TB SSD M.2 PCIe Drive
Hard drives 4.0TB 7,200rpm SATA 6Gb/s
and of course 1- BOXX T-Shirt

AMD® Ryzen™ Threadripper™ Processors Liquid Cooled AMD® X399 Chipset
Quad Channel DDR4-2666 . . (8 DIMMS)
(8) Serial ATA 6Gb/s ports * . . (RAID 0 and 1)
(3) M.2 Port (1) U.2 Port Shared with M.2
(2) Gigabit Ethernet port
(1) Wireless AC 7.1 HD Audio . .
Front panel mic + audio out (1) S/PDIF Out (Optical)
(4) USB 3.0 ports: . . (4) Front
(9) USB 3.1 Type A ports: . . (9) Rear
(1) USB 3.1 Type C port: . . (1) Rear
1000W Power Supply 6.84″w x 15.28″h x 17.80″d

Expansion options: (2) 3.5″ hard drive bays or (4) 2.5″ hard drives
(2) PCIe 3.0 x16 slots (at x16)
(2) PCIe 3.0 x16 slots (at x8)
(1) PCIe 3.0 x1 slots

And actually that is good to know about Houdini. A fair amount of discussion about it lately on the Newtek forum plus one of the 3rd party developers has been doing some great things with bridges between a number of other programs & Lightwave, Houdini being one of them.

I’ve had a number of BMD products over he years & have always appreciated the way Grant approached things. Glad to see them succeed. Sort of why I went with Boxx too I suppose.

[Steve Bentley]

So in other words, you sold your home furnace to buy the Boxx and found out you no longer needed any kind of HVAC at all. SORRY, SHOULD I SAY THAT LOUDER SO YOU CAN HEAR ME OVER THE FANS?
But seriously, that’s a hell of rig. Any issues with the AMD compatibility yet? Is that enough ram for 32 cores? I’ve got 24 cores here on one system and I’m wincing at renders pushing the 128gb of ram to its limits. (to be fair that’s i7’s so perhaps they are more memory hoggy)

[Mark Whitney]

Funny you should say that. I’ve two systems & an electric heater on the same circuit & no problems. Couldn’t do that in pre LED monitor days.

So far no issues of that sort. Mostly just getting use to Win10 & installing & re-registered various things. Have three Steam games that won’t start & have to get in touch with each of the creators separately. Wonderful. But the others look & play phenomenal. Minor set back though; I can find the dongle to the controller. Replacement one is en-route.

Had to do the reinstall & manual rereg of Element3D earlier tonight but that worked just fine. Hope to work though the Orb tutorial soon as I’ve a particular shot I want to do that I couldn’t before.